NDLI: Mobility-Aware Connectivity for Seamless Multimedia Delivery in the Heterogeneous Wireless Internet

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bellavista, Paolo Corradi, Antonio Giannelli, Carlo
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Dip. Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica - Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna - ITALY. Phone: +39-051-2093001; Fax: +39-051-2093073, pbellavista@deis.unibo.it (Bellavista, Paolo) \|\| Dip. Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica - Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna - ITALY. Phone: +39-051-2093001; Fax: +39-051-2093073, acorradi@deis.unibo.it (Corradi, Antonio) \|\| Dip. Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica - Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna - ITALY. Phone: +39-051-2093001; Fax: +39-051-2093073, cgiannelli@deis.unibo.it (Giannelli, Carlo)
Abstract	The diffusion of wireless terminals with multiple communication interfaces, e.g., IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, and UMTS on the same device, is pushing towards the necessity of middleware solutions to dynamically and seamlessly select the proper connectivity technology to exploit at any time. That selection should consider several elements, at very different abstraction layers, from application bandwidth to energy consumption requirements, from connectivity costs to user preferences, i.e., it should be context-dependent. The paper presents our context-aware MAC middleware for multi-interface wireless terminals that enables the dynamic determination and selection of the most suitable interface and connectivity provider among the available ones. MAC novelty is primarily in two crucial challenging elements. On the one hand, it considers not only infrastructure-based connectivity providers, e.g., UMTS base stations, but also peer nodes, e.g., neighbor nodes accessible via Bluetooth and connected via Wi-Fi to the Internet infrastructure. On the other hand, MAC can evaluate both infrastructure and peer connectivity providers not only based on usual parameters such as available bandwidth and energy consumption, but also taking into account innovative and crucial indicators such as the degree of mobility, even relatively to mobile connecting clients.
File Size	2016249
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424415205
ISSN	15301346
DOI	10.1109/ISCC.2007.4381648
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-07-01
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Internet Peer to peer computing Bluetooth 3G mobile communication Middleware Bandwidth Energy consumption Costs Base stations Joining processes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Mathematics Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Software

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